This is most likely what Square Enix DE's facebook post was about. If so, localisation is pretty likely. I'm worried that the whole In App Purchase thing might go down badly, i.e people with lots of money paying to become ridiculously overpowered, although I have no idea how chi works so maybe that won't be the case. Looking forward to it nonetheless.

I'm not sure either how the in-app purchases might integrate with KHX, but Final Fantasy Record Keeper reportedly did microtransactions quite well in that it was still fair for players who chose not to pay actual money. I'd hope they'd apply a similar strategy to Unchained Key. I do know that, in KHX, you can dress up your player, so offering purchase of cosmetic items through either playing the game and earning whatever the in-game currency is (munny? mog points?) or paying actual money seems likely too.

Is there actual story in this game? Like is it relevant to the KH experience? Because if it's not I have no interest in this.

I know nothing about this game and how it relates to Coded or 3, but okay.

I really don't see the point of this game. From what is known it supposedly takes place during the Keyblade Wars, yet the minor enemies you fight are Emblem Heartless which canonically didn't come into existence until long after the Wars had ended. Technically this game shouldn't even be canon to the series due to how it goes against already established facts.

I'm all for any Kingdom Hearts titles that I can get my hands on, but yes; as long as you don't have to pay to actually do anything I'm all for getting this. I mean, a relation to the series would make it 10x cooler and I been reading the replies and it sounds as much as it will. Unless they decide to change it last minute (which won't happen).

If they're billing the game as a free-to-play title I doubt that story elements would be locked behind paygates; I'm sure you'll have access to most, if not all, content of the title without having to invest. Judging by Square's previous smartphone ventures, they'll offer cosmetic items or power-ups (to make things like leveling faster/easier) through microtransactions.

I feel this might be more for users in other countries than Japan. I remember reading somewhere that smartphones haven't necessarily caught on there as they have in the Western world.

Well if this is going to be an APP at android is probably going to have a translation (even if is not official /hacked of sorts) so we'll finally discover what the fuss is all about.

I honestly, did not see this coming. Either way, it's great that I finally have a chance to play KHX. I really hope this game goes well.

tbh I was expecting KHX to be cutscene movie ala Days/Re:coded in a KH3D port, but a phone game is pretty exciting too. I'm hoping we can get a release date for the West soon, and that Square maintains support for it. I know they completely dropped TWEWY: Solo Remix a couple months back (WHICH I'M EXTREMELY BITTER ABOUT LMAO), but considering it's an entry for one of their flagship series and one that's very relevant to what will be one of their biggest game releases outside FFXV, that should hopefully not be a big problem.